He was glad the fence was nearing completion, and that with the money due him life in the big city would begin.

He clambered upon the clover-mow, and tossed about uneasily on the blanket upon which he had thrown himself still dressed.

It was some time before he slept, and then odd dreams came.
He thought he had taken Jenny to the town, and that Mrs.Rolfston seemed always near them, yet in hiding.

They could not get away from her.

Then came a time when she had crept up behind them and over his head had thrown a noose, and was drawing it tighter and tighter and strangling him, and he could not, somehow, raise his hands to free himself.